Nulilov at the universities begging for freedom of assembly, Petrunkevich in the Duma begging for freedom for the people; [but which will make all these pleas a petty and insignificant incident in the cause of the conquest of freedom] — will conquer the genuine freedom of the people.

The Moscow events have revealed the genuine alignment of social forces: the liberals ran back and forth between the government and the radicals, dissuading the latter from revolutionary struggle. The radicals fought in the ranks of the proletariat. Let us not forget this lesson: [in our reasoning] it applies directly to the State Duma as well. Let them, etc.

Let Petrunkevich and the other Constitutional Democrats occupy themselves with the game of parliamentarism in autocratic Russia,— the workers will conduct revolutionary struggle for genuine popular sovereignty.

* QUOTATION FROM "VOSSISCHE ZEITUNG."

["Autonomy has made it possible for professors to carry out their teaching duties freely. Therefore, professors of all universities and higher educational institutions agree among themselves that it is necessary to undertake teaching again with energy. They *) employ all their influence in order to persuade students to abandon the promotion of a Social-Democratic slogan. In many higher educational institutions, for example, in the Petersburg Polytechnic, they have succeeded in this. In Moscow, the decisive struggle has not yet ended. The newly-elected rector Prince S. N. Trubetskoy and his assistant Manuylov personally appeared at a student assembly and urgently persuaded the students not to admit at least any extraneous elements into the university building. A similar struggle between professors and students, as well as among various groups of students—which this year is not as unanimous as in the past—is occurring [also] equally in all the remaining higher educational institutions and universities. At Petersburg University, where the influence of professors is weaker, the Social-Democratic resolution was"]

*) The first two pages of the manuscript are lost. The 3rd page begins in the middle of the word "employ." The first two sentences have been restored according to Works, vol. VIII, p. 315.